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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 12 May '19
Restomod BMWs with V10 engines, McLaren's new GT and a peek inside Pagani
We want these Tesla pick-up renders to come to life
"The images you see above are renders from Turkish designer Emre Husmen, and don’t they look brilliant. The giant off-road tyres, chunky arches and plastic skid plates are classic pick-up staples, but the swooping roofline and sharp features make this look suitably modern.
"It also avoids any retro styling that could have clashed with the rather wonderful Rivian R1T - there’s room for more than one electric pick-up in this world."
Advertisement - Page continues belowWe've had a look inside the incredible Pagani museum
"Fancy some Top Gear holiday advice? If you happen to be walking past the Pagani factory based at San Cesario sul Panaro in Modena, Italy, here’s a tip."
Porsche's new 911 Speedster will sound great and cost lots
"After months of concepts and teasers, the Porsche 911 Speedster is finally here. And it costs – um – £211,599. A whole hundred grand more than the 911 GT3 upon which it’s based."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe Lamborghini Miura from The Italian Job has been found
"Effectively lost since the film’s release 50 years ago (insofar as of all the orange Miuras in the world, nobody knew which one had actually appeared in the movie), chassis #3586 has finally been officially certified by Lambo’s Polo Storico department as the same car actor Rossano Brazzi drove up the Great St Bernard Pass for the film’s opening sequence."
Shock! The new McLaren GT has a rear end!
"McLaren’s new GT car will be called the McLaren GT. And we can exclusively confirm that it will have a rear end. Wheels, lights and everything."
The new Ford Focus ST costs as much as a used Mercedes E63 AMG
"Ford has finally released prices for the new Focus ST, and the news is… interesting. Mainly because it’s quite expensive."
This mad BMW 2002 has a 792bhp V10 and weighs less than a tonne
"The renderings you see above will come to life this summer, and yes, that will be a real BMW 2002 underneath the mother of all carbon body kits."
Advertisement - Page continues belowIt's the Alfa Romeo hypercar we deserve *and* need right now
"You have Maximillian Cooper – of the Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami – to thank for this lump of beautifully designed regret. His task, along with all the others who entered FCA’s contest, was to take any FCA brand – Alfa, Chrysler, Fiat, Jeep, Maserati and so on – and imagine the 'ultimate status vehicle'. Job done, we’d proffer."
Volkswagen’s brand-new electric car will be called the ID.3
"We now know that the base model, with 205 miles of range, will cost under €30,000 and that there will be a 340-mile long-range spec which hasn’t been priced as of yet. All cars will be rear-engined and RWD though, with the ‘space of a Passat on a footprint smaller than a Golf,’ VW’s design head Klaus Bischoff told TG in 2016."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThis Moto GP star's having a bash at DTM
"Andrea Dovizioso, currently pushing the mighty Marc Marquez hard at bike racing’s top level, is leaping straight into the spare seat of an Audi RS5 for a German touring car race in, um, Italy."
Manhart’s take on the new BMW Z4 has 493bhp
"The German tuner has massaged that engine by fitting a bigger turbo and intercooler, as well as giving it a software update, so that it now chucks out 493bhp and a faintly terrifying 502lb ft of torque. That’s the same brake horsepower as the no-frills M4 GTS. Crikey."
The Brazilian Grand Prix will move to a new track in Rio
"Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, who was elected towards the end of last year, has tweeted news that the country’s grand prix will move to a newly-built track in Rio."
A harder, track focused BMW M8 Competition is coming
"There’s obviously no word on what powertrain and suspension enhancements said M8 Competition will receive, but it’ll probably produce more than the regular M8’s 600bhp+ from the same twin-turbo 4.4-litre V8 as both M5 and M5 Competition."
Here's a brief history of Porsche Speedsters
"It all came about when Porsche’s American importer convinced ze Germans there was a market for an open, stripped-out model costing less than $3,000. And so in 1954 the 356 Speedster was born. It had the same body as the Cabriolet model, but a more steeply-raked windscreen and less equipment (less money for less car? Those were the days…)."
Future BMW M cars will get configurable brakes
"BMW is debuting a brand new feature in its forthcoming M8 coupe (which likely means other M cars could benefit) that allows you to more accurately configure how the brakes respond. We’re told it brings together the brake activation, booster and control functions within one module, is 2kg lighter, and gets an electric actuator to work up the pressure."
The Bugatti Chiron Sport is testing at Paul Ricard
"Coming soon is the Chiron Sport, seen here undergoing a spot of testing at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France."
You can only buy this Range Rover if you’re an astronaut
"Welcome to the latest thing from JLR’s Special Vehicle Operations division - a Range Rover available exclusively to member’s of Virgin Galactic’s Future Astronauts programme. Yep, this really is a car you cannot physically buy unless you are going or have been to space."
You can have a look inside the Ferrari Museum
"When you’ve been building road-going cars for 72 years, you’re bound to get some of them right. Thankfully, Ferrari’s history includes more cars that hit the spot (both in terms of design and performance) than most."
Rolls Royce has teased its 115th anniversary Phantom
"The Rolls Royce Phantom is a rather special car. The extended wheelbase version starts at £432,000, for Pete’s sake, and that’s before you’ve even specced the gold-plated Spirit of Ecstasy or the lambswool carpets. Admit it – you just would."
Porsche's new exhaust has saved the 9,000rpm flat-six
"Happily, Andreas Preuninger – head of Porsche’s GT-badged cars – all but confirmed this isn’t the engine’s swansong, with much of the thanks going to a clever new exhaust system. It incorporates a particulate filter, to lower the car’s emissions, but thanks to the fastidiousness of Porsche’s engineers it’s somehow gained 10bhp and lost 10kg, too."
This NSX garage will blow your mind
"It’s rare to see one Honda NSX at the best of times. So, you can imagine our surprise when we just happened to pass a flood of them outside a ratty old garage a few miles from Middle-of-Nowhere, Japan"
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